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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1988

ECONOMIC SUCCESS A REFLECTION OF SOUND EDUCATION SYSTEM

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PROUD OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS HONG KONG HAS THE RIGHT TO BE EDUCATION, AND SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THIS AREA IN THE

ON THE SOCIETY AT 10 YEARS HAVE VERY PROFOUND EFFECTS

LARGE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR DAVID LAN, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

IN

LAST THE

TSIM SHA SIGN

SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF TSUI EAST, MR LAN SAID HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS WAS ITSELF A OF THE FUNDAMENTAL SOUNDNESS OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

**

ENVY OF THE HE SAID OUR WORK FORCE WAS THE

WORLD. *WHETHER

OR LABOURERS, CLERKS, THEY ARE

FNGINEERS

THEIR TOP MANAGERS,

CONTRIBUTING TO THE PRODUCTIVITY, ADAPTABILITY AND DYNAMISM ARE ALL SUCCESS OF THIS MODERN MIRACLE KNOWN AS HONG KONG."

"WITHOUT A GOOD, SOUND FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION, OF SUCH CALIBRE BE PRODUCED?" MR LAN ASKED.

HOW CAN PEOPLE

YEAR.

LAN SAID THE TOTAL EDUCATION ON THE COSTS OF EDUCATION, MR BUDGET WAS

FISCAL

THIS MILLION IN THE $9,180

CURRENT TOTAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE REPRESENTED 18 PER CENT OF THE

AND A FIVE-AND-A-HALF FOLD. INCREASE OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS.

YEARS OF

"OUR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE PERCENTAGES OVER THE LAST FEW HAVE ONLY BEEN EQUALLED OR SURPASSED BY NOT MORE THAN 12 COUNTRIES

* HE CONTINUED. THE 182 LISTED IN THE 1986 UNESCO STATISTICAL YEARBOOK,

ON THE PROVISION OF NINE YEARS' FREE AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION, ASIA HAD MORE THAN NINE MR LAN SAID ONLY TWO OUT OF 42 REGIONS IN

TO ACCORDING

THE YEARS

UNESCO EDUCATION, OF COMPULSORY STATISTICAL YEARBOOK.

1986

MAJOR

OR

"FROM THE SAME SOURCE WE FIND THAT COUNTRIES

HAVE LONGER

REGIONS

ONLY 53 OUT OF THE 200

OF

COMPULSORY PERIODS

ז!

EDUCATION, HE ADDED.

KONG, ΤΟ THE PRESENT

TURNING TO SUBSIDISED SENIOR SECONDARY EDUCATION IN HONG MR LAN SAID 95 PER CENT OVERALL PROVISION AS OPPOSED 72 PER CENT WOULD HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED BY 1991.

TODAY'S 65 PER CENT CENT WOULD BE

BY THAT YEAR, 85 PER CENT AS OPPOSED TO WOULD CONTINUE TO BE IN THE GENERAL STREAM AND 10 PER IN THE TECHNICAL STREAM.

WORLD WERE NOT EDUCATION SYSTEMS

THESE TARGETS OF PROVISION WERE CERTAINLY RESPECTABLE BY

THAT STRICT SAID, ADDING

COMPARISONS STANDARDS, MR LAN POSSIBLE BECAUSE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES HAD DIFFERENT CATERING FOR DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS.

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